Jean Renart
Jean Renart, also known as Jean Renaut, was a Picard trouvère from the end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th to whom three works are firmly ascribed: two metrical chivalric romances, L'Escoufle ("The Kite") and Guillaume de Dole, and a lai, Lai de l’Ombre. Nothing else is known of him or his life. He is praised for his realism and his psychological insight.
Also recorded as Jean Renaut
Jean Renart
- Born
- 1175 · Soissons.
- Died
- 1300
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- writer · composer · poet · troubadour
- Fields
- poetry · literature
- Known for
- L'Escoufle · Guillaume de Dole · Lai de l'ombre
- Languages
- French
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Jean Renart, also known as Jean Renaut, was a Picard trouvère from the end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th to whom three works are firmly ascribed: two metrical chivalric romances, L'Escoufle ("The Kite") and Guillaume de Dole, and a lai, Lai de l’Ombre. Nothing else is known of him or his life. He is praised for his realism and his psychological insight.
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Born at Soissons in 1175, died in 1300.
The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is poetry and literature. Works named in the authority record are L'Escoufle, Guillaume de Dole and Lai de l'ombre.
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scholarly publication
- Renart, Jean: L'escoufle, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2020
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2436555: Jean Renart
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- “Jean Renart”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Revue de linguistique romane. Société de linguistique romane. 2008.
- 2.Collectif, "L'ceuvre de Jean Renart" - Google
- 3.Rita Lejeune, éd. de 1936, Félix Lecoy, éd. de 1962)
- 4.https://books.google.it/books?id=JUsxx2ED8hEC&printsec=frontcover&hl=it#v=onepage&q&f=false Rita Lejeune-Dehousse, L'Œuvre de Jean Renart : contribution à l'étude du genre romanesque au Moyen Âge, E. Droz, Lieg, Paris, 1935
- 5.Todd, p. 144
- 6.harvsp Jean Renart 2008 p=11
- 7.Renart est un patronyme germanique (Reginhard) traditionnellement porté par le goupil, flatteur, menteur, malicieux et rusé.
- 8.Revue de linguistique romane. Société de linguistique romane. 1997.
- 9.La musique en Picardie au Moyen Age.
- 10.Sara Dal Prà. Le Roman de la Rose de Jean Renart. Essai de traduction en italien d’un roman courtois du. dspace.univ.it. 2016-2017.
- 11.Baudouin VI de Hainaut part pour la quatrième croisade en 1202 et meurt en 1206, prisonnier des Valaques après la bataille d'Andrinople ; jusqu’en 1246, il n’y a plus de comte de Hainaut.
- 12.harvsp Jean Renart 2008 p=13
- 13.Originaire de Nanteuil-la-Fosse, le jeune et ambitieux Milon est candidat (éconduit) au titre d'archevêque de Reims en 1202, chanoine de la cathédrale en 1206, prévôt du chapitre à partir de 1207 et jusqu'à son élection comme évêque de Beauvais en 1217, consacré en 1222 à son retour de croisade, et mort en 1234.
- 14.Les spécialistes datent ce roman soit de 1208-1210 (Rita Lejeune, 1974 ; Jean Dufournet, 2008), soit de 1228 (Félix Lecoy, 1962 ; Michel Zink, 1979).
- 15.Du nouveau sur Jean Renart, 24 pages, Liège, 1997
- 16.harvsp Jean Renart 2008 p=12
- 17.: Jean Renart, écrivant pour le monde courtois francophone, relève avec un amusement condescendant le parler dialectal.
- 18.harvsp Nancy Vine Durling 1997 p=47
- 19.Ce thème bien connu des contes porte le n° AT 882 dans la classification Aarne-Thompson.
- 20.harvsp Nancy Vine Durling 1997 p=46
- 21.harvsp Jean Renart 2008 p=56
- 22.harvsp Jean Renart 2008 p=57
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- Rita Lejeune, L’œuvre de Jean Renart, Liège, Paris, Droz, 1935.
- Rita Lejeune, « Jean Renart, pseudonyme littéraire de l'évêque de Liège, Hugues de Pierrepont (1200-1229) », Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 77:2, 1999, .
- Roman rose et rose rouge. Nizet. 1979.
- Théâtre, littérature et société au Moyen Âge. Serre éditeur. 2004. 978-2-86410-412-4.
- Jean Renart and the Art of Romance. University Press of Florida. 1997. 978-0-8130-1495-1.
- Sylvie Lefèvre, « Jean Renart », dans Robert Bossuat, Louis Pichard et Guy Raynaud de Lage (dir.), Dictionnaire des lettres françaises, t. 1 : Moyen Âge, éd. entièrement revue et mise à jour sous la dir. de Geneviève Hasenohr et Michel Zink, Paris, Fayard, 1994, .
- Isabelle Arseneau. La condition du pastiche dans le roman lyrico-narratif de Jean Renart (Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole). Études françaises. 46. 2010. 99-122.
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Renart, Jean: L'escoufle, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020Crossref registry
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q2436555: Jean RenartWikimedia Foundation
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 119077515, Jean, Renart.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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